The Society of the Spectacle

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Engelse vertaling van het sleutelwerk van Guy Debord. - Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical worksfor a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's workcontinues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation ofmodern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takesthe problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as animage dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity ofall modern societies